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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: Library of Congress
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): LOC-HAK-550-2-68-4
• Release Decision: RIPLIM
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: January 11, 2017
• Document Release Date: March 2, 2011
• Sequence Number: 68
• Publication Date: November 1, 1974
• Content Type: CABLE

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ARGENTINE FEDERAL FOL ICE CHIEF MURDERED: THE HEAD OF THE
ARGENTINE FEDERAL POLICE, ALBERT0 VILLAR, HIS WIFE, AND BODY-
'GUARDS WERE MURDERED TODAY ABOARD A YACHT AT A MARINA JUST
0UTSII E BUENOS AIRES. THE BOMB EXPLOSION THAT KILLED THEM
WAS PRESUMABLY THE WORK OF LEFTIST TERROR ISIS 'HO CONSIDERED
VILLAR A PRIME TARGET. VILLAR WAS A PROTEGE OF INFLUENT IAL
PRESIDENTIAL ADVISER LOPEZ REGA -- THE Nl1MEER ONE TARGET OF
ALL LEFT-WING GUERR ILLAS. V ILLAR WAS ALSO PFL IEVEP TO BE A
XEY FIGURE IN THE ACT )VAT ION OF DEATH SQUADS OPEPAT ING UNDER
QUASI-OFFICIAL SPONSORSHIP. JUAN PERON BROUGHT HIM OUT OF
RET IREMENT TO LEAD THE STRUGGLE AGAINST THE GUE.PR ILLAS, BUT
HE HAD ONLY L IMITED SUCCESS IN BOLSTER ING POL ICE EFFECTIVENESS.
VILLAR' S DEATH WILL PROBABLY DEAL A FURTHER 81_0?` TO POL ICE
MORALE. CIA BELIEVES THE VILLAR ASSASSINAT ION SEEMS CERTAIN
TO SET OFF MORE DRASTIC COUNTER MEASIPES AGAINST TERRORISM.
THE GOVERNMENT MAY DECIDE T G IMPLEMENT SOME SORT OF STATE
OF EMERGENCY IPA ACCORDANCE WITH CONT INGENCY PLANS REPORTEDLY
DRAWN UP RECENTLY. WEAKENING OF THE FEDERAL POL ICE MAY ALSO
SPUR THE MILITARY TO TAKE ON ADD IT ZONAL RESPONSIBILITIES IN
COMBAT ING ARGENTINA' S UBIQUITOUS TERROR ISTS.
INDOCHINA SITUAT ION: HEAVY FIGHTING CONT INUES NEAR THE' PRO-
VINC IAL CAPITAL OF SVAY P IENG IN! SOUTHEASTERN CA MMBOD IA. GOV-.
E.RNMENT FORCES YE STERDAY KILLED 37 KHMER COMMUNISTS DURING
OPERATIONS TO CLEAR INSURGENTS FROM TRENCH-LINES ALONG THE
CITY'S DEFENSIVE PERIMETER. FOR THEIR PART, THE COMMUNISTS
SHELLED SVAY R IENG CITY WITH 107-M1M ROCKETS, INFLICT ING A
FEW CASUALT IES. IN OTHER SIGNIFICANT ACT ION, CAMBODIAN ARMY
TROOPS YESTERDAY CLEARED A STRETCH OF ROUTE 5 SOME 9 MILES
NORTHWEST OF KOMPONG CHHNANC T HAT HAD BEEN UNDER INSURGENT
INTERDICTION. THE STRATEGIC HIGHWAY IS STILL CIT INN AN AREA
SAT ...ALT,H:LC_H LNE .NME NT_ FCk A 1 iG
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SOME PROGRESS IN REDUCING THE EXTENT OF INTERD ICT ION.
IN SO UT H V IET NAM, SOME R0 L AR GE - CAL 16EP ROCKETS WERE F IRED
AT THE BIEN HOA AIRBASE ON WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY. A FE'S!
AIRCRAFT WERE DESTROYED AND DAMAGED BUT THERE 'WERE FEW
CASUALT IFS. HE MOST INTENSE GROUND FIGHTING CONTINUES SOUTH
OF HUE WHERE SOUTH VIETNAMESE UNITS HAVE STILL NOT RECAPTURED
MO TAU AND BONG MOUNTAINS. THE REGIONAL COV'MMANO ER HAS ORDERED
THESE HIGHGROUND POSITIONS TAKEN BEFORE THE COMING HEAVY RAINS
MAKE IT IMPOSSIBLE.
No Objection to Declassification in Part 2011/03/02: LOC-HAK-550-2-68-4
 NORTH KOR FAN AIR STAND OOI1N ENDS: AIRCRAFT FROM AT LEAST
TWO OF NO No Objection to Declassification in Part 2011/03/02: LOC-HAK-550-2-68-4
YESTERDAY ENDING THE STAND DOWN OF TACTICAL AIRCRAFT THAT
HAS BEEN IN EFFECT SINCE M NDAY, EARL IFR, TWO BOMBERS HAD
ALSO FLO`W?N. FOR SIX OF THE LAST EIGHT YEARS SUCH A STAND
DOWN HAS TAKEN PLACE IN LATE OCTOBER OR EARLY NOVEMBER, BUT
THE REASON FOR THESE OCCURRANCES IS STILL UNCLEAR.
NEW SOVIET TACTICAL SURFACE-TO-SURFACE M ISSILE: THE SOVIETS
ARE DEVELOPING A NEV TACTICAL SURFACE-TO- St,RFACE M ISSILE WHICH
,Y ILL REPLACE THE SCUD ANO POSSIBLY FROG MISSILE SYSTEMS. THE
NEW MISSILE W ILL HAVE AN, ESTIMATED MAXIMUM RANGE OF ABOUT 150
NAUT ICAL MILES AND SHOULC HAVE $MPROVEU ACCURACY. THE MISSILE
IS EXPECTED TO REACH INIT IAL OPERAT IONAL CAPAB IL lTY BEFORE
1975. T If SCUD SYSTEM HAS PEEN IN THE 1NVENTDRY FOR OVER 17
YEARS; I T HAS A L I M I T E D CA PAP ILITY IN TERt/S OF ACCURACY AND
REACT ION T IME, THE FROG MISSILE -- WHICH WAS DEPLOYED IN" 1969
IS A GOOD SYSTEM, BUT BECAUSE IT IS AN UNGUIDED ROCKET IT HAS
A LIMITED ACCURACY.
MEET ING OF LAT IN AMER ICA N COMMUNIST PART IES IN CUBA: REPR
SENTAT IVES OF THE COMMUNIST PART IES OF CUSA COLOMBIA, APSE
T INA, PR A7 IL, ANC, URUGUAY MET IN HAVANA IN LATE SEPTEMBER
AND AGREED TO CONVOKE A CONFERENCE OF ALL LATIN AMER !CAN
AND CAP IBBEAN COMMUNIST PART IES IN `AY OR JUNE 1975,
A SECPFT PPREPAPATOR Y MEET-
IN NAL PART IES , ILL BE HELD
IN HAVANA ON DECEMBER 10 TO PLAN THE AGENDA FOR THE CONFE ENCE,
WHICH, PAT FIDEL CASTRO'S URGING WILL HAVE AS ITS THEME "LAT IN
AMER ICA AND THE STRUG.GLF AGA INST IMPER IAL ISM." ALTHOUGH THOSE
AT THE SEPTEMBER MEET I NG AGREED T HAT THE IR IMWEO lATE TASK IS
TO ORGANIZE ALL THEIR FORCES TC COMBAT U. S. INFLUENCE, THERE
WAS SOME DIVERGENCE OF OPINION ON WHO SHOULD PE INVITED TO
THE CONFERENCE NEXT YEAR. THE CUBANS I N S I S T E D THAT CONSIDDERA-
T ION BE G I V E N T O OTHER L E F T I S T , NON-COMM,MUN' I ST GROUPS BUT T H E OTHER REPFCSFNTATIVES AT THE MEET INS PLAN TO INVITE ONLY
COMMUNIST PART IFS.
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